The Ku Klux Klan is through with politics, Hiram W. Evans, Imperial Wizard of the organization, declared in Dallas, Texas, according to an Associated Press despatch from that city.
“The policies of the Klan have been changed, and it is now completely out of politics,” Dr. Evans declared. “It is not interested in the candidacy of any man or woman.”
The Imperial Wizard said the Klan would not enter a slate in the Texas elections this year.
In 1922 the Klan-supported candidates were generally victorious in their campaigns for State offices. Two years later Klan candidates met sweeping reverses at the polls. Notable among the victorious anti-Klan candidates was Governor Miriam A. Ferguson.
Despite its reverses in politics, the Klan was growing in Texas, Dr. Evans said. In other states the membership waxed and waned, according to local conditions, he said.
BREVITIES
Henry H. Curran, Commissioner of Immigration at Ellis Island, announced he had sent his resignation to President Coolidge, to take effect March 31, so that he might become counsel to the City Club of New York.
Mr. Curran’s successor will be Benjamin M. Day, a New York lawyer, who until January 1 was legal adviser to the Internal Revenue Department. He is well known in Republican circles, having once been President of the New York Young Republican Club.
A. E. Lefcourt, who is credited with leading the movement of the garment trades industry westward and northward in New York by the construction of new buildings, said Friday night in an address that the garment trades should advertise that the “sweat shop” has disappeared.
“The ‘sweat shop’ will never return,” he said, “and no man or agency can contradict this statement. The only outstanding thought of us who knew the real conditions governing the housing of the women’s garment industry, is the one that centres around the neglect on the part of the trade organizations in the women’s wear field in disseminating such information about the new conditions that govern the making of women’s garments, so that every man and woman in New York City can learn the truth.”
Josef Rosenblatt has resigned as cantor of Congregation Oheb Zedek, New York City, an office he has held for the last fourteen years. He has agreed to continue to lead the singing until next August to give the trustees an opportunity to fill his place.
Upon the request of Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin, Rabbi of Temple B’nai B’rith, the Board of Education of Los Angeles, Cal., decided to eliminate the reading of the “Merchant of Venice” in the Public Schools of Los Angeles.
Rabbi Maurice M. Mazure of Temple Emanuel, Worcester, Mass., will accept the invitation of the Worcester Ministers’ Union to become a member of that body, the Rabbi indicated.
Rabbi Mazure will be the first of his faith to be admitted to the organization since its inception.
No change in the constitution of the Union was necessary for the admittance of the rabbi, it was found by the Rev. Howard E. Pomeroy, pastor of the Lake View Congregational Church and secretary of the organization.
Rabbi Mazure’s name was proposed at a recent meeting by the Rev. Dr. Mitchell, pastor of the Wesley Methodist Church.
The leader of Temple Emanuel has lectured at several of the Protestant churches in the city and is known as a brilliant speaker.
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